[SOLVED] When highlighting filename, is data being written to disk?

[Oblivion77]

Hello everyone

I have my Windows in danish, so I hope, I use the correct terms and names.

When I do the following with an image-file:
Right click on the file, press “change name / rename”, or left double click, so the name gets highlighted, and then left click with the mouse outside of the name-field. No changes made to the filename.

Is this only a process in memory?
Is there data written to the disk?
How can I verify / find out?

Thank you for reading and replying

Best regards

Emil

 

[USAFRet]

It is both in memory and (minimally) to the drive.
Just moving the mouse around writes minimally to the Registry. This happens continually, all the time.

ProcessMonitor can show you these continual writes to the Registry and elsewhere.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon

 

[jojesa]

If you have enough available RAM there will be no data written to the disk while doing those tasks, but there will be data read from the disk.
You could add the columns I/O writes and I/O write bytes to the Task Manager to track disk usage.

 

[Oblivion77]

Thank you both for replying

So the conclusion is, no data is written or changed to the file?

 

[jojesa]

Thank you both for replying

So the conclusion is, no data is written or changed to the file?

Yes to both.

 

[Oblivion77]

ProcessMonitor can show you these continual writes to the Registry and elsewhere.

I have looked at Proces Monitor, and the column "Disk", here it stays at 0 when highlighting filename and pressing away (no changes made) . Can I take that as verification?

 

[jojesa]

I have looked at Proces Monitor, and the column "Disk", here it stays at 0 when highlighting filename and pressing away (no changes made) . Can I take that as verification?

Yes, you can take that as verification.
Just curious, why are you so concerned about writing to a disk when performing those tasks?

 

[Oblivion77]

Just curious, why are you so concerned about writing to a disk when performing those tasks?

It is only a nerdy / personal interest. And that if a change / writing was made to the disk, why the "last changed" date of the folder, was not changed then.

But thanks for your answers!